GOCR Optical Character Recognition Utility 0.40 NetPBM pnm.c readpgm heap-based overflow
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A vulnerability was found in GOCR Optical Character Recognition Utility 0.40 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function readpgm
of the file pnm.c of the component NetPBM. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the readpgm function in pnm.c for GOCR 0.40, when it is not using netpbm, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a P3 format PNM file with more data than implied by its width and height values.
The weakness was released 04/15/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at overflow.pl. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1142 since 04/16/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 24205.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Heap-based overflowCWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
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Remote: Yes
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Timeline
04/15/2005 🔍04/15/2005 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: overflow.plStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2005-1142 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 03/10/2015 23:05Updated: 07/22/2017 10:26
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (43), 07/22/2017 10:26 (6)
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